並列タイトル等The Background of Seventeenth-Century Conduct Books in England and Japan
一般注記In the seventeenth century, a literary genre of conduct books for young people appeared in both England and Japan. Richard Brathwaite's The English Gentleman（1630） and The English Gentlewoman （1631）, and Johaku Namura's Onna Chohoki（1690） and Nan Chohoki（1691） are examples of this genre, and are the subjects of this study. The target readership of these books was young people, and in both instances, a single author wrote for both young men and young women. This genre flourished in the midst of the early modern period, when people aspired to sophistication and knowledge. Braithwaite's "gentleman" and "gentlewoman" were modelled on the perfect Italian courtiers and ladies described by Castiglione, and established the social principles and disciplines in early modern England. In the last decades of the seventeenth century in the Edo period in Japan, people had a similar attitude toward learning and sophistication, and Namura's books sated their thirst for knowledge about social conduct. More and more people were believing that good manners and well-cultivated tastes were essential for a good life. The flourishing of the conduct book genre also indicates the fact that many young people in both England and Japan were reading books and that the publishing industry was developing remarkably. This study concludes that the four books of this genre discussed here reflect common characteristics of early modernism in the two countries.
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